Hi everyone.
I also work for the same site and I wanted to mention that the problems we are having are new. The post count and member count have not caused problems up until about 1 month ago. During this time we had a problem with the Ram on the server, replaced it and had another problem. Then the site was moved to a temporary machine and today it was moved to a new virtual environment.
One of the guys who works on the site wonders if maybe the database is not configured properly to maximize performace.
Just seems funny that these problems are recent and quite possibly a hardware and maybe configuration problem.
?? Helen